Comment: Here's just one example of straight players disclosing their own sexuality: Eric Decker, now of the New York Jets, not only announced plans to marry the woman who became his wife, he also agreed to participate in a reality TV show about their marriage.

Comment: Sam publicly confirmed he was gay ahead of a media outlet that was already planning to reveal the news. He wanted to try to control how the information got out; there have been several detailed stories about this. Had he not been threatened with being outed, we likely wouldn't be even having this discussion.